Wednesday, October 18. 2006

I have met Ehud Olmert many times and he impressed me (at the time) as articulate and able to think quickly on his feet. The first time was at the famous Ted Koppel TV show, where the Arabs insisted on a fence down the middle of a stage. Ehud spoke very well that night. He seems to have done a decent job as Mayor of Jerusalem. But, I cannot be sure of that.

So what caused his complete inability to deal with the Lebanon surprise by Hezb’Allah or his cruel advise to then PM Arik Sharon to abandon Gush Katif in Gaza.

There are several answers:
1. Olmert had zero experience in thinking about military strategy or tactics.
2. Olmert could not possibly assess the advice of General Dan Halutz whose Air Force mind-set told Olmert that air power could easily win any war. Olmert accepted Halutz’ outlook.

Tuesday, October 17. 2006

ISRAEL'S SACRED PLACESWhy The Arab Thrust To Seize Control of Them
By Bernard J. Shapiro
An editorial from the November 2001 issue of THE MACCABEAN ONLINE.

When the late Israeli Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin, and Foreign Minister Shimon Peres signed the Oslo Accords on the White House lawn (September 1993), they initiated a process whereby Israel would lose control of its Sacred Places and its Holy Land. Even before Oslo, Moshe Dayan had surrendered the most sacred of Jewish Holy Places, the Temple Mount, to the Arabs. There is much more involved here than politics as ususal. I believe that there is something terrible dangerous about the removal of the Jews from their Sacred Places.

All over the world, from Stonehenge in England to the great temples of India, one finds Holy Places with great mystical power for the people who inhabit those lands. Some shrines of the East draw believers from across the globe. The power of these places can not be explained scientifically. One only needs to step onto Mount Abu in India to feel the presence of great mystical forces. And then there is Banares, the Hindu's Holy City of Light casting a warm glow over the sacred Ganges river.

King Abdullah of Jordan is jittery and for very good reason.
He has publicly expressed his growing concern at the continuing power struggles, internal fighting and economic disaster occurring in Gaza and the implications this will have for the "two-state solution" sponsored almost four years ago by America, the European Union, Russia and the United Nations - the so called Quartet.

The Quartet's proposal called for the creation of a 23 rd independent Arab State within Gaza and the West Bank - the remaining 6% of the former League of Nations Mandate for Palestine unallocated between Israel (17%) and Jordan (77%).

Thursday, October 12. 2006

IS THE WORLD FINALLY AWAKENING TO TERROR THREATS?
By Emanuel A. Winston,
Research Associate & Member of the Board of Directors,
Freeman Center For Strategic Studies

Is Christianity first awakening Europe and America to the threat to their very existence? Pope Benedict XVI made his thoughts plain when he quoted a 14th century Orthodox Byzantine Emperor who spoke of Mohammed committed to things evil and inhuman. This German Pope is no fool and does not make slips of his tongue. He sees an encroaching Islam with all of its killing ways so he issued a modest wake-up call to Europe.

He knew it would enrage the radical Muslims but, then he downplayed it - without abandoning his meaning.This article started to be drafted Tuesday night October 10th, only to find the NEW YORK TIMES of October 11th had beaten me to it. I was astonished that the NYT had the guts to speak about the awakening of Europe as to the threat of violent Islam in their midst.

Monday, October 9. 2006

KILL OR BE KILLED
By Emanuel A. Winston
Member of the Board of Directors
Mid East Analyst & Commentator

Western civilization has grown light years beyond the primitive societies that make up the societies of Islam. They yet cannot bring themselves to recognize that as an advanced civilization occupied with advancing new technologies and the things that make up the word "civil". History is replete with examples of nations and whole civilizations that have advanced well beyond their initial beginnings, usually born in war and conquest.

However, when they reach a level of productiveness benefitting their population, the malcontents on the fringes begin to attack and absorb the good things that were built. This is happening now in lesser or greater degrees as Islam rises like a plague to replace Western Civilization with Global Dominance by Islam.

Friday, October 6. 2006

James Baker's appearance on the Hannity-Colmes show on Fox this week
is a harbinger that the Bush administration is about to launch a series
ofpolicies that will make Israel the Middle East fall guy. That is an
old James Baker specialty.

When Baker talks of speaking to Syria he means pushing Israel out of
the strategic Golan Heights, which Syria used to menace Israel before
1967. When Baker speaks of getting on with the "peace process," he
means pushing Israel out of her strategic territories so that the
Arabs can set up a new terrorist nation on Israel territory that will
be dedicated to Israel's destruction.